Havre to Avalanche Creek

Two Medicine, Glacier National Park

Two Medicine Lake

Susan liked the beargrass

meadows above Two Medicine

 Ranger Kelly Lynch 

krumholtz, 5 Needle pine 

light rain on the way to Dawson Pass

 then snow

Ranger Lynch at Dawson Pass

Silene Acaulis, the Moss Campion

shoe drying

wet bench, sacrificial NYRs

 hill above our tent at Two Medicine

breakfast at MacDonald Lake

heading to run the Highline, 11.6 mile, rain

the Highline

over the pass

down the other side

White Motors, canvas top, 1928

there are 22 of these running shuttles over Logan Pass

everybody out here is nuts about huckleberries

huckleberry pie

Duluth to Havre Montana

I-94 Cafe, unhelpful on a straight shot across North Dakota

parfait bar, Albertson's, Bismarck ND

prairie dog town

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Medora ND

bison seem to get along with the dogs

bison poop

bison pooping

herds are everywhere

and come rumbling through our camp in the morning

bluff over the Little Missouri River

kitchen

 burgers

cross the not-so-wide Little Missouri

 hiking in the park requires many water crossings

                                    some quite muddy

hiking the badlands

bentonite, absorbs 5 times its volume in water

principal component of kitty litter

petrified wood everywhere

the ND badlands are not uniformly bad

 and give way to fantastic grasslands

the river a constant presence

providing our nightly bath

someone (not me) tagged the mudflats

we love the CCC

everything they did was cool

Rt 2 across eastern Montana

outskirts of Havre, Hill County Seat

cutthroat cornhole competition at the Holiday Village Mall

Havre MT